Quotes by : Julie Otsuka

We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting.

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face,....

Overnight, our neighbors began to look at us differently. Maybe it was the little girl down the road....

It would be autumn, and our fathers would be out threshing in the fields. We would walk through the mulberry....

Mostly though, they waited. For the mail. For the news. For the bells. For breakfast and lunch and dinner.....

Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had....

And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And....

Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond....